I'll agree on Ma Bell, but bear in mind after the consent decree they were a de-facto government monopoly, able to bar competitors from the market in a coercive manner. Cable companies are largely the same thing on the state and local level. As for Microsoft, they're still a win for most parties involved. They've slipped in recent years, and of course, the Linux types will talk out of both sides of their asshole about how Microsoft is simultaneously vulnerable and invulnerable to the threat of low-cost Linux PC's.
If economies are cyclical, why is it that the bad economic policies always precede the down cycles? Wouldn't they mistime it and hit an up cycle once in a while?
The first is not a problem unless coercion is involed (monopolies that don't represent a win for the customers don't stay monopolies). As for the second, we have a civil court system. If these pollutants clearly demonstrate harm, why shouldn't the affected seek relief?
If the fight between the two turns bitter enough, it could lead to a situation where backers of one might be unwilling to support the other. This happened with the Republicans in 1976, where Reagan supporters by and large did not back Ford, and brought upon us four years of Peanutman. If this happens, though, I imagine it won't get horrendously nasty until the DNC horse-trading starts.
Another point to bring up, those "uncollected" health care costs come from more government interference, in the form of EMTALA. What other business in the United States is legally required to do pro bono work? Charity stops being charity at the point of a gun.
More of Ron Paul being hated for his (insignificant) virtues rather than his (plentiful) vices. Like many on the left, you seem to not be able to discern economic power from political power. The biggest, nastiest, most impersonal corporation can never *force* you to act against your own nature and trade with it; they can only entice. Now, I will concede, as a result of the horrific government violations of rights in the economic sector, some businessmen (who probably couldn't have put a lemonade stand in the black otherwise) are able to use pull to gain favors and bring ruin to their fellows. This pull did not originate in the businessmen, it is now and has always been the sole function of government. Achieve a proper separation of economics and state, under a proper, objective law, and the pull dries up.
I doubt it's going to have much effect on the quality of scientists. If they have to be told what the true viewpoint is, instead of drawing their own conclusions about ID/evolution based upon the appropriate scientific facts, then flipping burgers is more their speed anyways.
If it's fallible, then what the hell good is it? I mean, that whole papacy thing is based upon a throwaway line in it. If that's fallible, then they're all fucked.
The Catholic view on science typically boils down to ad-hockery. If there's a contradiction between their infallible holy book and the laws of the universe, God meant for it to be that way. I guess determining lottery winners is pretty much God's speed anymore.
I don't think that either will be particularly useful in the long run, but apparently they go a long way towards assuaging white guilt, which is their real selling point.
This seems to make sense. Low end, commodity PC hardware hasn't driven out premium performers like Apple or the whole customized-gaming-PC market. Even a cheap $400 "real" laptop is more computer than some people want or need.
Hardware issues, mainly. My current laptop has a Broadcom 4311 wireless chip. Hardware support is doable in Linux with a ganked firmware, but the chip isn't usable in FreeBSD without ndis (and they call it "Project Evil" for a reason). As far as the rest, there's nothing in PC-BSD or DesktopBSD that I really want or care about. Anything I want, I can get done in regular FreeBSD.
Actually, yes, they were instructed on what rights they were giving up, given a valid enlistment contract to sign, and then swore an oath in the presence of a commissioned officer that they were performing such actions.
I know my Intro class would have been a lot more interesting if we got to handle M16's. At least it would have given me a leg up when I was in boot camp.
As far as security and other within-branch updates go, I've had no problems in the past keeping the base system up to date using the steps outlined in the Handbook (cvsup, make kernel/world/etc, reboot, install, etc). Config files are usually handled with mergemaster, which isn't half-bad when it comes to keeping configurations in check. X is a third-party package, so it gets handled with the port/package tools (the jump to modular X was a pain in the dick IIRC, but it all got smoothed out). I'm not sure whether additional steps are required for 7.0, but there might be something in/usr/src/UPDATING or on the webpage.
From personal experience, WoW runs on FreeBSD, but the installer won't work (or didn't on 6.2 & whatever version of wine I was using a year or so ago).
And the obligatory kudos to the FreeBSD guys for this one. I'm seriously contemplating a switch back (I'm running Ubuntu now, and am a little skittish after all the hand-wringing it took to get it to work on my laptop). There's some things I don't like about FreeBSD as far as desktop stuff goes, but the more centralized nature seems to give it more stability and transparency, and the documentation is head and shoulders above what I've seen for most Linux distributions.
If you're hoping for a fiscal small-government conservative, you're shit out of luck with McCain. Really, he's the worst of all worlds, simultaneously selling the country down the river to the religious wackos, the welfare statists, and the greens. No one else on the Republican side, not even Ron Paul, is a hell of a lot better. Really, my plan for this election is to vote Democrat and hope for gridlock. I despise their ideas, but at least they come from policy makers rather than invisible men in the sky.
This technically isn't a defense (well, actually it is, but unlike the ones you listed, it isn't an *affirmative* defense); Reiser and his attorneys aren't affirming any of the facts of the prosecution's case. They're trying to explain his weird-ass actions before and after Nina's disappearance.
Well, if the killers in question are executed, that has quite effectively prevented them from ever murdering again. Really, the possibility of an innocent being executed is the only reason I don't enthusiastically support the death penalty; when someone shows the disregard for human life present in an act of premeditated murder, I find it both fitting and just that he forfeit his own right to life.
I use Linux and love it, but then again, I'm the kind of lost soul who *likes* the command line and cryptic right-click window managers. Really, and I've been wondering this for a few years now, *what* does Linux have to gain with widespread mass adoption? 99.9% of the computer-using public isn't going to pay a dime for a product they can download for free, almost none of them are ever going to submit a code patch or bug report (aside from whiny "why doesn't it look and work just like [x]?" "feature requests"), and the "closed source/non-free software" problem (if you're one who sees it as a problem) won't go away, it'll just be in our backyard instead of Bill's. Gates and Jobs are welcome to this crowd; nothing personal or elitist, they just do nothing for me.
Last two times I passed through IAH, the WiFi wasn't free. Not a big deal, tho. I've got one of those pay-as-you-go Boingo accounts and really couldn't complain. If I want free Wi-Fi, I'll check into a hotel.
Sadly, any religion that claims to be a religion of peace is lying through its teeth. When people abandon their faculty of reason and start to believe in the imaginary, they lose their means to negotiate with others. The only remaining alternative is the use of force, either directly (kidnappings, murders, bombings) or indirectly (using coercive power of government to enforce one's "divinely inspired" whims).
Any morals that promote life. Xians would have us believe that we're all these miserably horrible people cursed to eternal damnation and torture (based upon something that happened 6,000 years ago that no living human had any control over) unless we accept that some Jewish eccentric was the son of God and died because we were all horrible people (one thing I don't get about "blood libel", it's some horrible wrong to suggest one ethicity was responsible for Jesus's death. but it's perfectly acceptable to blame ALL of humanity?). The only way to find true happiness is to accept that we can never be happy in this world, abstain from smoking, drinking, fucking (unless with a legally married, gender-appropriate partner and only to produce children), or anything else we might take pleasure in, and ask God to forgive us for being horrible, horrible people. Granted, not all Christians will tell you this to your face, because most of them are stuck in this contradiction that their values are compatible with, or even the source of, secular Western values.
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I'll agree on Ma Bell, but bear in mind after the consent decree they were a de-facto government monopoly, able to bar competitors from the market in a coercive manner. Cable companies are largely the same thing on the state and local level. As for Microsoft, they're still a win for most parties involved. They've slipped in recent years, and of course, the Linux types will talk out of both sides of their asshole about how Microsoft is simultaneously vulnerable and invulnerable to the threat of low-cost Linux PC's.
If economies are cyclical, why is it that the bad economic policies always precede the down cycles? Wouldn't they mistime it and hit an up cycle once in a while?
The first is not a problem unless coercion is involed (monopolies that don't represent a win for the customers don't stay monopolies). As for the second, we have a civil court system. If these pollutants clearly demonstrate harm, why shouldn't the affected seek relief?
If the fight between the two turns bitter enough, it could lead to a situation where backers of one might be unwilling to support the other. This happened with the Republicans in 1976, where Reagan supporters by and large did not back Ford, and brought upon us four years of Peanutman. If this happens, though, I imagine it won't get horrendously nasty until the DNC horse-trading starts.
Why don't we just call it what it really is: forcible redistribution of wealth?
Another point to bring up, those "uncollected" health care costs come from more government interference, in the form of EMTALA. What other business in the United States is legally required to do pro bono work? Charity stops being charity at the point of a gun.
More of Ron Paul being hated for his (insignificant) virtues rather than his (plentiful) vices. Like many on the left, you seem to not be able to discern economic power from political power. The biggest, nastiest, most impersonal corporation can never *force* you to act against your own nature and trade with it; they can only entice. Now, I will concede, as a result of the horrific government violations of rights in the economic sector, some businessmen (who probably couldn't have put a lemonade stand in the black otherwise) are able to use pull to gain favors and bring ruin to their fellows. This pull did not originate in the businessmen, it is now and has always been the sole function of government. Achieve a proper separation of economics and state, under a proper, objective law, and the pull dries up.
I doubt it's going to have much effect on the quality of scientists. If they have to be told what the true viewpoint is, instead of drawing their own conclusions about ID/evolution based upon the appropriate scientific facts, then flipping burgers is more their speed anyways.
If it's fallible, then what the hell good is it? I mean, that whole papacy thing is based upon a throwaway line in it. If that's fallible, then they're all fucked.
True, but Jefferson's "Creator" grants mankind a status no Judeo-Christian deity ever has.
The Catholic view on science typically boils down to ad-hockery. If there's a contradiction between their infallible holy book and the laws of the universe, God meant for it to be that way. I guess determining lottery winners is pretty much God's speed anymore.
I don't think that either will be particularly useful in the long run, but apparently they go a long way towards assuaging white guilt, which is their real selling point.
This seems to make sense. Low end, commodity PC hardware hasn't driven out premium performers like Apple or the whole customized-gaming-PC market. Even a cheap $400 "real" laptop is more computer than some people want or need.
Hardware issues, mainly. My current laptop has a Broadcom 4311 wireless chip. Hardware support is doable in Linux with a ganked firmware, but the chip isn't usable in FreeBSD without ndis (and they call it "Project Evil" for a reason). As far as the rest, there's nothing in PC-BSD or DesktopBSD that I really want or care about. Anything I want, I can get done in regular FreeBSD.
Actually, yes, they were instructed on what rights they were giving up, given a valid enlistment contract to sign, and then swore an oath in the presence of a commissioned officer that they were performing such actions.
I know my Intro class would have been a lot more interesting if we got to handle M16's. At least it would have given me a leg up when I was in boot camp.
As far as security and other within-branch updates go, I've had no problems in the past keeping the base system up to date using the steps outlined in the Handbook (cvsup, make kernel/world/etc, reboot, install, etc). Config files are usually handled with mergemaster, which isn't half-bad when it comes to keeping configurations in check. X is a third-party package, so it gets handled with the port/package tools (the jump to modular X was a pain in the dick IIRC, but it all got smoothed out). I'm not sure whether additional steps are required for 7.0, but there might be something in /usr/src/UPDATING or on the webpage.
From personal experience, WoW runs on FreeBSD, but the installer won't work (or didn't on 6.2 & whatever version of wine I was using a year or so ago).
And the obligatory kudos to the FreeBSD guys for this one. I'm seriously contemplating a switch back (I'm running Ubuntu now, and am a little skittish after all the hand-wringing it took to get it to work on my laptop). There's some things I don't like about FreeBSD as far as desktop stuff goes, but the more centralized nature seems to give it more stability and transparency, and the documentation is head and shoulders above what I've seen for most Linux distributions.
If you're hoping for a fiscal small-government conservative, you're shit out of luck with McCain. Really, he's the worst of all worlds, simultaneously selling the country down the river to the religious wackos, the welfare statists, and the greens. No one else on the Republican side, not even Ron Paul, is a hell of a lot better. Really, my plan for this election is to vote Democrat and hope for gridlock. I despise their ideas, but at least they come from policy makers rather than invisible men in the sky.
This technically isn't a defense (well, actually it is, but unlike the ones you listed, it isn't an *affirmative* defense); Reiser and his attorneys aren't affirming any of the facts of the prosecution's case. They're trying to explain his weird-ass actions before and after Nina's disappearance.
Well, if the killers in question are executed, that has quite effectively prevented them from ever murdering again. Really, the possibility of an innocent being executed is the only reason I don't enthusiastically support the death penalty; when someone shows the disregard for human life present in an act of premeditated murder, I find it both fitting and just that he forfeit his own right to life.
(1) Hit it
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(3) head.
I use Linux and love it, but then again, I'm the kind of lost soul who *likes* the command line and cryptic right-click window managers. Really, and I've been wondering this for a few years now, *what* does Linux have to gain with widespread mass adoption? 99.9% of the computer-using public isn't going to pay a dime for a product they can download for free, almost none of them are ever going to submit a code patch or bug report (aside from whiny "why doesn't it look and work just like [x]?" "feature requests"), and the "closed source/non-free software" problem (if you're one who sees it as a problem) won't go away, it'll just be in our backyard instead of Bill's. Gates and Jobs are welcome to this crowd; nothing personal or elitist, they just do nothing for me.
Last two times I passed through IAH, the WiFi wasn't free. Not a big deal, tho. I've got one of those pay-as-you-go Boingo accounts and really couldn't complain. If I want free Wi-Fi, I'll check into a hotel.
Sadly, any religion that claims to be a religion of peace is lying through its teeth. When people abandon their faculty of reason and start to believe in the imaginary, they lose their means to negotiate with others. The only remaining alternative is the use of force, either directly (kidnappings, murders, bombings) or indirectly (using coercive power of government to enforce one's "divinely inspired" whims).
Any morals that promote life. Xians would have us believe that we're all these miserably horrible people cursed to eternal damnation and torture (based upon something that happened 6,000 years ago that no living human had any control over) unless we accept that some Jewish eccentric was the son of God and died because we were all horrible people (one thing I don't get about "blood libel", it's some horrible wrong to suggest one ethicity was responsible for Jesus's death. but it's perfectly acceptable to blame ALL of humanity?). The only way to find true happiness is to accept that we can never be happy in this world, abstain from smoking, drinking, fucking (unless with a legally married, gender-appropriate partner and only to produce children), or anything else we might take pleasure in, and ask God to forgive us for being horrible, horrible people. Granted, not all Christians will tell you this to your face, because most of them are stuck in this contradiction that their values are compatible with, or even the source of, secular Western values.